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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 20, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 14.

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Seventh-day Baptists.

By R. F. Cotterell

I had the privilege of meeting with this people at their late General Conference, as a visitor. It was a disappointment, to me and to them, that Bro. White was prevented by sickness in his family from attending, as had been anticipated. I was courteously invited by vote to take part in their deliberations, but, of course, was not authorized nor prepared to fill the place of our appointed delegate.
It was indeed a privilege for me to meet with old acquaintances among them, and to form many new ones. The cordiality of these warm hearts, glowing, I trust, with love to God and his holy law, was truly refreshing to me. And I return to my field of labor with an increased and increasing interest in this dear people, whom I may truly call “my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;” for, having a Stillman for my mother, I should judge that a majority of the whole denomination are relatives and connections of mine. And I can truly say, that “my heart’s desire and prayer to God” for them is, that they may be saved. See Rom. 9: 1-3; 10: 1. I do not know that I could truly say that “I could wish myself accursed from Christ” for them, but I have a strong desire and increasing anxiety that prejudice may be removed from their minds, that they may be disabused in relation to our views on the second advent, so that they can learn them from ourselves, and no longer receive them at second-hand, and, consequently, perverted. When this is effected, they will readily see, that of the two peoples who have respect to all God’s commandments, that people are fulfilling the predicted proclamation of the “third angel,” who believe that this is their special mission, in view of the soon appearing of the “Son of Man” upon the “great white cloud,” and not the ones who claim that they have always been preaching this message for the last two hundred years or more.
R. F. COTTERELL.